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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 30, 2008 | Sotheby's | London | European Paintings including German, Austrian & Central European Paintings and The Orientalist Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | Nach Dem Tennisspiel (After The Match) |
Works on Paper
17.2 x 12 cm (6.77 x 4.72 in)
pencil on paper laid onto card
signed and dated A. v. Menzel '98 lower right
Tennis in its most rudimentary form dates back to the ancient Egyptians and was a kind of religious practice. Having been introduced by the Moors to European monasteries the game gained popularity with monks in the 12th and 13th century (to a point where the Christian church was considering banning the game). During the Renaissance the game was more and more refined and became a highly fashionable game at European Courts. Enjoyed by Kings and noblemen, tennis was destined to become popular with the newly leisured middle-classes from the mid-Nineteenth Century onwards.. An acute observer of his contemporaries, Menzel, in the present work, depicts the post-match gallant banter of two bourgeois tennis opponents. According to Ursula Riemann-Reyher, 'Menzel's drawings often give unembellished information about human behaviour, for his sense of realism did not omit trivialities. He became a chronicler of his time, but the innovative and rich renderings of his sheets distinguishes them from the popular art of the period.' (Ursula Riemann-Reyher, Adolph Menzel 1815-1905. Master Drawings from East Berlin, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 78)..
